The Express has been campaigning on behalf of the people of Macclesfield to find out how the council broke its own rules in starting work to build a waste transfer station – leading to the entire project being scrapped at huge cost to you, the taxpayer.

Today we promise to continue that fight to find out who was to blame and how the money was wasted.

It has been three years since we revealed work had begun on the plant, even though the council had not granted planning permission - see how the whole sorry saga has unfolded here: